Z64 BIOS 2.12 Features

This BIOS update is our service committment to all our customers. Note that if you have Z64 HW1.0, you do not need to upgrade as new BIOS provides no benefits so read about BIOS v.2.11 for the last BIOS you can upgrade.

• Gameboy© and other game console systems emulation. Note that you need a Z64 (or V64) compatible emulator ROM for this to work. There is currently a Gameboy emulator available on http://www.dextrose.com. (You should also check this site for news and availability on other console emulators.) How-To: run Gameboy emulator on Z64 by downloading emulator, unzip it and rename the ROM file to gb.emu. All your Gameboy ROM files should use .gb as filename extension. Put all files on ZIP disk and run .gb ROM file through On Screen Display.
  
  
• Fixes game freezing problem for certain games due to signal timing issue. Click here for an explanation from Dextrose.
  
  
• Saves Memory Pad to ZIP disk. Now you do not need to keep buying Memory Pads. How-To: This is posted on Dextrose by Sound Of Silence -

  Well since the bios zip was absent of any type of manual (come 
  on Mr. Backup, be a little more professional about this stuff),
  many people were wondering how to work the mempack backup feature 
  of the new bios, well here's how:
  
  Load up the On-Screen-Display
  
  Arrow down to the game you want to backup your mempack for
  
  Hit the left c-button
  
  Pick "Save"
  
  Now when you want to play that game with your mempack
  once again, just load the game up like normal, and it will 
  prompt you on whether to load the mempack or not, and click yes... 
  After loading the rom, it will take about 20 seconds to load the 
  mempack, then its done...
  
  From what I can tell, it backs up the entire mempack to
  the zipdisk under the filename specified by what game you hit
  "left-c" on...  Meaning if you hit "left-c" on Vigilante 8, the 
  save file will be something like vigilant.mpk (or something similar)...
  The file weighs in at 32k (the size of a nintendo mempack). This 
  also means that if you save a mempack with two different games on 
  it (say Vigilante 8 and Madden), only the title you hit "left-c" on 
  will load the mempack automatically... So say you have the Madden/Vig 8
  mempack and you hit "left-c" on Vigilante 8... When you load your 
  madden rom, it won't load the memory pak with it... A bit annoying, 
  but now that you really don't have to buy memory packs, I suggest 
  just keeping one game to a save file, and you'll make it a whole lot 
  easier.
  
  One thing I would like to suggest for the next bios version ([SoS]
  chuckles to himself at the thought of them actually listening to user
  requests for the next bios), a mempack data screen that can be
  accessed from the OSD... Just something to browse the memory paks
  and clean up files a bit... Also allowing a .diz or .txt file to put
  mempack descriptions in (like where you were in the game, what level,
  etc...) that can be viewed from the OSD... (That's in addition to the
  CDROM support of course...)
  

• Improves ZIP decompression speed.
  
  
• Enhanced several disk and file functions.
  
  
• Added BootEmu and APS (Advanced Patching System).
  
  
• Added several more languages.

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